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  • Erotic Grotesque Nonsense

    The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times

    de Miriam Silverberg ...
    Series Libro 1 - Asia Pacific Modern
    This history of Japanese mass culture during the decades preceding Pearl Harbor argues that the new gestures, relationship, and humor of ero-guro-nansensu (erotic grotesque nonsense) expressed a self-consciously modern ethos that challenged state ideology and expansionism. Miriam Silverberg uses sources such as movie magazines, ethnographies of the homeless, and the most famous photographs from ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • Manga and the Representation of Japanese History

    Edición de Roman Rosenbaum ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This edited collection explores how graphic art and in particular Japanese manga represent Japanese history.The articles explore the representation of history in manga from disciplines that include such diverse fields as literary studies, politics, history, cultural studies, linguistics, narratology, and semiotics. Despite this diversity of approaches all academics from these respective fields of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Tokyo in Transit

    Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road

    de Alisa Freedman ...
    Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic, and popular culture depictions of how mass transportation changed prewar Tokyo's social ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Japanese Visual Culture

    Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime

    de Mark W. MacWilliams ...
    Born of Japan's cultural encounter with Western entertainment media, manga (comic books or graphic novels) and anime (animated films) are two of the most universally recognized forms of contemporary mass culture. Because they tell stories through visual imagery, they vault over language barriers. Well suited to electronic transmission and distributed by Japan's globalized culture industry, they ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • A History of Japanese Theatre

    Edición de Jonah Salz ...
    Japan boasts one of the world's oldest, most vibrant and most influential performance traditions. This accessible and complete history provides a comprehensive overview of Japanese theatre and its continuing global influence. Written by eminent international scholars, it spans the full range of dance-theatre genres over the past fifteen hundred years, including noh theatre, bunraku puppet theatre, ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Frames of Anime

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the “language-medium” of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its layers of concentric radiation from Japan throughout Asia. Her work, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Full Metal Apache

    Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

    de Takayuki Tatsumi, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson, Larry McCaffery ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents between the avant-gardes and pop cultures of Japan and the United States. In Full Metal Apache, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Kurosawa

    Film Studies and Japanese Cinema

    de Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society
    The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director’s cinema, Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto definitively analyzes Kurosawa’s entire body of work, from 1943’s Sanshiro Sugata to 1993’s Madadayo. In scrutinizing this oeuvre, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema, 1947-1987

    de Sumita S. Chakravarty ...
    Series series Texas Film and Media Studies Series
    Although Indian popular cinema has a long history and is familiar to audiences around the world, it has rarely been systematically studied. This book offers the first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood. The study focuses on the cinema’s characteristic forms, its range of meanings and pleasures, and, above all, its ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • A History of Popular Culture in Japan

    From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

    de Dr. E. Taylor Atkins ...
    A 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power, identity and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Flash of Capital

    Film and Geopolitics in Japan

    de Eric Cazdyn, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    The Flash of Capital analyzes the links between Japan’s capitalist history and its film history, illuminating what these connections reveal about film culture and everyday life in Japan. Looking at a hundred-year history of film and capitalism, Eric Cazdyn theorizes a cultural history that highlights the spaces where film and the nation transcend their customary borders—where culture and capital ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Neurotic Beauty

    An Outsider Looks at Japan

    de Morris Berman ...
    Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential role of Japanese philosophy in creating a dynamicapproach to human nature and our understanding of reality. The book also shows theinterrelatedness of various facets of Japanese history and society, ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD